February Garden Tips
After a long break this Garden Tips newsletter is getting going again, gearing up for the coming Season. 1st and 2nd of February are the feast days of St. Bridget, Candlemass, Imbolg, celebrations of very [...]
February Garden Tips
Feast your eyes on sheets of snowdrops: There are special open days at gardens not otherwise accessible at this time of year: Snowdrops at Rode Hall Rode Hall, Church Lane, Scholar Green, Cheshire, [...]
March Garden Tips
March 2016 - coming in like a lion March can still bite like a lion. Frost and snow is not uncommon. The photo showing the fat flower buds of a morello cherry against [...]
March Garden Tips
There is general surprise in the media about the weather, March, they say, March is the beginning of Spring! This isn’t anybody’s idea of Spring. But looking back at my photos, there have been quite [...]
March Garden Tips
Cornus mas Flowers! Colour! Scent! Even though it’s freezing cold the days are getting longer and the landscape is no longer uniformly grey and brown. There are shrubs and bulbs doing their thing: [...]
October Garden Tips
October is good month for visiting gardens open to the public for inspiration, as many border perennials will continue to flower, grasses are looking at their tawny best and trees large and small put on [...]
October Garden Tips
Stipa tennuissima at the Oudolf garden in Humello Ornamental grasses really come into their own at this time of year. Their stems are set moving by the wind and catch the low light. [...]